Chapter 11 Therefore thou shalt love the LORD thy God, and keep his charge,
and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments always.
And know ye this day, for I speak not with your children which have not known,
and which have not seen the chastisement of the LORD your God, his greatness,
his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm, and his miracles, and his acts,
which he did in the midst of Egypt unto Pharaoh the king of Egypt, and unto all
his land.
And what he did unto the army of Egypt, unto their horses, and their chariots,
how he made the water of the Red Sea to overflow them as they pursued after you,
and how the LORD hath destroyed them unto this day.
And what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came into this place.
And what he did unto Dathan, and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben,
how the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed them up, and their
households, and their tents, and all the substance that was in their possession in
the midst of all Israel.
But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the LORD which he did.
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day,
that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land whither ye go to possess
it, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which the LORD swear unto your
fathers to give unto them, and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and
honey.
For the land whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt,
from whence she came out.
Where thou sowest thy seed, and wateredest it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs.
But the land whither ye go to possess it, is a land of hills, and valleys,
and drinketh water of the rain of heaven, a land which the LORD thy God careth for.
The eyes of the LORD thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year,
even unto the end of the year.
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments,
which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all
your heart, and with all your soul, that I will give you the rain of your land
in his due season, the first rain, and the latter rain, that thou mayest
gather in thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil.
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat,
and be full.
Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside,
and serve other gods, and worship them.
And then the LORD's wrath be kindled against you, and ye shut up the heaven,
that there be no rain, and that the land yield not a fruit, and lest ye perish
quickly from off the good land, which the LORD giveth you.
Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart, and in your soul,
and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your
eyes.
And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them, when thou sittest in
thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou
risest up.
And thou shalt write them upon the doorposts of thine house, and upon thy
gates, that your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children,
in the land which the LORD swear unto your fathers to give them, as the days of
heaven upon the earth.
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you,
to do them, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave
unto him, then will the LORD drive out all these nations from before you.
And ye shall possess greater nations, and mightier than yourselves.
Every place whereon the soles of your feet shall tread, shall be yours, from the
wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the
uttermost sea shall your coast be.
There shall no man be able to stand before you, for the LORD your God shall lay the
fear of you, and the dread of you, upon all the land that ye shall tread
upon, as he hath said unto you.
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse, a blessing if ye
obey the commandments of the LORD your God which I command you this day, and a curse
if ye will not obey the commandments of the LORD your God, but turn aside out of
the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods which ye have not
known.
And it shall come to pass, when the LORD thy God hath brought thee in unto the land
whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon
Mount Gerizim, and the curse upon Mount Ebel.
Are they not on the other side, Jordan, by the way where the sun goeth
down in the land of the Canaanites, which dwell in the Champaign, over against
Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?
For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God
giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before
you this day.